Luca di Filippo — Photography
H2O
A little journey around Jeppe Heins Appearing Rooms fountain
A solution of water and happy human beings distilled in backlit. No faces, just bodies and gestures against a wall of water. A tale of joy and silent happy screams during some warm mornings.
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Into the Wood
Presence felt before it is seen
The forest as signal and noise. Photographs taken in the woods around Livigno over four winters. Something is always just out of frame. The light arrives already filtered, and the silence is the loudest thing.
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Prisoners
We are all prisoners.
Sometimes our soul try to escape from the cultural cliches, generating emotions, frustration or anger. I tried to depict what is often happening inside us.
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Tate People
Scale reduces intention to drift
Visitors at the Tate Modern turbine hall, observed from the balcony above. At this distance, purpose dissolves. People become particles. The architecture is the only thing with any certainty about where it is going.
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Tate Shadows
The same hall, same light, different hour
What Tate People did with figures, Tate Shadows does with what figures leave behind. The turbine hall floor as a projection surface. The person is gone. The light keeps the record.
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Feed the Eyes
Texture before ingredient, ingredient before dish
Macro food photography at the threshold of recognition. At this proximity the subject stops being food and starts being material. The appetite it generates is for looking, not eating.
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Georgian Food
The meal as archive
Tbilisi table culture, photographed from the inside. Ingredients before hands, hands before plate, plate before story. The supra as a social structure as much as a meal. Food that has not changed because there has been no reason to change it.
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Good Old Days
Food as time travel, ingredient by ingredient
Traditional recipes and the rituals that carry them. The cast iron pot, the wooden board, the handwriting on the recipe card. Techniques that predate photography by several generations, photographed with the patience they deserve.
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Marco Comes to London
A Romagnola kitchen, one evening, somewhere else
Chef Marco Cavallucci brings his kitchen to London for one night. The speed and precision of someone cooking in a borrowed space. Ingredients carried from Italy, technique carried from further back than that.
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Mountain Ingredients
The ingredient as landscape
Alpine raw material, photographed close to where it comes from. The mushroom still carrying earth, the cheese still carrying the altitude. Food that tastes of its origin because its origin is still visible.
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Nuvola Social
Food photographed to perform, and still to be looked at
Social media content for Nuvola di Farina, a fresh pasta restaurant in London. The brief was to make the food compulsive on a small screen without making it dishonest. The pasta is real. The light is worked. The distance between those two things is the job.
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On the Table
The interval between kitchen and consumption
Food at the moment of arrival. The dish is still composed, the surface still intact. Nobody has touched it yet. This is the shortest window in a meal, and the one that carries the most promise.
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Today's Traditions
The tradition as a living structure, not a museum object
Contemporary chefs working inside inherited forms. The old technique applied with new precision. The family recipe cooked in a professional kitchen for the first time. What stays when everything around it changes.
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Allevi in London
The private face of a public instrument
Italian pianist and composer Giovanni Allevi, documented in London before and after a performance. The backstage, the soundcheck, the signing queue, the empty hall after. The music is not in the photographs. What is in the photographs is what the music costs.
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Feel Bruges
A city that knows itself
Still water, still light. A December weekend and the specific silence of a place that has been beautiful for so long it no longer needs to announce it. The reflections are almost better than the things they reflect.
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Spirit of Istanbul
A city that exists in at least two tenses at once
Bosphorus light and suspension. The strait as the actual subject: everything on either side of it is defined by what it is not. Thirty-two images from a city that has been negotiating its own contradictions for longer than most cities have existed.
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Morocco: Al Magrib
Light that comes from everywhere and casts shadow accordingly
Fifty-one images from the medinas, deserts, and mountain roads of Morocco. The tanneries, the souks, the Sahara at golden hour, the Atlas in cloud. A country that has been photographed so many times that the only honest approach is to photograph what you actually saw.
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If Only Paris
A city read through its surfaces
Sepia light and the specific grammar of looking up. Signs, silhouettes, stone. Paris resists the camera and rewards patience. These images were made in the gaps between the obvious photographs.
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Roaming Around Georgia
Light that arrives horizontally
Eight days in the eastern regions. Mtskheta, Gori, Uplistsikhe, the Alazani valley. A country where the landscape is theological and the food is an argument for staying. The light in the late afternoon is the reason for all of it.
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Tbilisi: Details & Textures
A city read at close range
Eighty-six images of surface, material, and the weight of accumulated time. The peeling paint, the carved balcony rail, the worn doorstep. Tbilisi is a city that has been rebuilt, destroyed, and rebuilt again, and every version left something behind.
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Timo Maas: Shoreditch
The particular quality of light in a room that is fully alive
Seventy-seven frames from a night with DJ and producer Timo Maas at a Shoreditch Halloween party. Music, crowd, and the before and after that most documentation ignores. The dancefloor at peak density. The venue in morning light.
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Daily Contaminations
Urban environments and personal style in productive collision
A fashion and lifestyle editorial exploring the visual tension between the body and the city. Clothing as interruption. The garment and the concrete in conversation, neither winning.
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Livigno Stories
Memory before tourism
An alpine village in Valtellina, documented over a summer season. Mountain culture photographed as something still being lived rather than something being performed. The hay, the cows, the lake, the people who stay through the winter.
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Ortho: Clinical Diagnostic
Precision, sterility, and the human context that gives both meaning
Product and environment photography for an orthopaedic clinical diagnostic brand. The instrument, the room, the clinician, the patient. The technical object photographed so that its purpose is legible without explanation.
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The Day After
Objects, surfaces, and the residue of time spent
A still life series shot in the aftermath of an event. The glass with its ring, the candle with its run wax, the chairs pulled back at different angles. Everything that was present is gone. Everything that remains is evidence.
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Zuhal Butler
The clothes and the body in productive negotiation
Fashion and portrait work for designer Zuhal Butler. The cut, the drape, the fastening. Clothes photographed as design objects rather than aspirational props. The body as the context in which the design either works or does not.
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